June 26, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Late Night Joke Off Mamdani style & radical gender theory
- Vote of the passengers & plastic surgery
- The Pete Hegseth hearing
- Couple O' headlines & Jack's home footwear
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and
Jet Tidy.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I know he.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Armstrong and Yetty I got to catch up on a
couple of things.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
I've got a Mormon insider, somebody who was living in
the Mormon Church, married for decades, who has hit us
with a couple of interesting things on a story we
did last hour. I don't know if you've been following
this national story of these kids that got kidnapped. It
looks like by some of the fundamentalist Mormons. Anyway, we'll
get to that later. It's the anniversary of gay marriage
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becoming legal. Got some stuff on that, but big story,
especially since the media is out of New York. The
fact that they I mean, it's a big story whether
you live in New York or not. But this socialist dude,
it would seem Israel hating Jew hating socialist dude is
going to be the mayor of New York almost certainly
come November. And all the late night comedians did a
(01:11):
joke about him last night.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yep, we're going to do a late night joke off.
Here's the format, each takes their crack at a joke,
I jokeet, he will rate them, give them a letter grade,
and the bottom grade getter will be banned from comedy
for life.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
It's amazing in US, It's amazing you have that power.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Yesterday was New York City's democratic mayoral primary, and former
Governor Andrew Cuomo conceded to status smilymen Zo Ron Mamdani
on the bright side. On the bright side for Cuomo,
at least he doesn't have.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
To move to New York City.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
During his concession speech, Cuomo said that Mam Donnie put
together a great campaign and added quote he touched young
people and inspired them and got them to come out
and vote. Cuomo's mistake was waiting until after he was
elected to touch young people.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Yeah, everyone is talking about this last night.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
In a major upset, Zoran Mamdani beat Andrew Cuomo to
win New York's democratic mayoral primate.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Mam Donnie is thirty.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Three years old.
Speaker 6 (02:21):
After he won, he was like, my seven roommates are
never going to believe this. Dude, take a look at
this map. Mom Donnie won decisively in Manhattan, Brooklyn in
Queens Or Andrew Cuomo won Staten Island, the Bronx and
the secret sixth borough of Groper's Island, And.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
It's not, and no it's not. It's not what it
sounds like.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
It was named after Emmanuel Groper, a Dutch colonial farmer
who enjoyed touching his employees.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
I knew that it was coming, But Grover's Island, all right, Well,
certainly the winner is clear there, Colbert with a solid
B plus maybe an A minus Fallon and Meyers tying
with B minuses.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
According to the obscure rules of the Late Night Joke Off,
they are both on double secret comedy probation and must
be funnier in the future.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
I'm not trying to downplay the fact that this guy's
socialist ideas and maybe anti Semitism was popular and got
him votes, but I think there is a lot more there.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
He ran against a horrible candidate, a horrible.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Candidate that, to everybody I've read, ran an almost non
existence campaign. He thought he could just walk through the
primary and win it without any effort whatsoever, and he
got beat. So he's a horrible candidate who ran a
bad campaign that played part of it.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Also, Trump learned the knows this.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
You grab onto a couple of issues everybody's crazy angry
about that nobody seems to be addressing and you make
that your focal point. Trump, immigration and inflation over and
over and over and over and over again, and it
seemed like nobody cared and that was the number one
and two issue.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
And this guy did the same thing. Prices are too high,
and he just kept talking about he can't afford to
live here, over and over and over and over over again.
That's gonna get a.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Lot of people to vote for you. And he's charismatic,
he's articulate, he's, you know, a hard working campaigner. The
rest of it. He's also a nightmare for people like
me who've been warning against the coalition of Islamism and progressivism.
And it's played out many times in history. I brought
you a list a couple of weeks ago where they
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work together to overthrow the powers that be, and then
they fight each other for whether it's going to become
an Islamist republic like Iran did, or a Marxist republic
like you know, Soviet Union did, although Islamism wasn't a
big part of that. But yeah, but they joined together
through history over and over again, this guy's both.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
He won, even though he refused to denounce the phrase
globalized into fada. It'll be interesting to see if he
moderates on that headed into the general election or not.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
He probably doesn't need to to win, but that's a
heck of a thing to run on.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Probably not because he got an enormous turnout of who white,
college educated young voters. That wasn't it, But that was
the strength of his campaign.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
So today is an anniversary. I remember very well. We
were gladys. We were doing this job. Of course we
were doing this job. We've been doing the same thing
every day our entire lives, Joe and I together, which
is fine. I love my job. It's just amazing that
you can.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Go opportunity for advancements. Somebody should have told me.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
It's amazing.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
It can go through like anything that's happened in the
last thirty some years.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
And Joe and I were sitting here talking about it.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
But it was ten years ago today that everybody was
anxiously awaiting a Supreme Court decision, as you often are
in June. There's not one this year, but often there's
a really big one. What's the Supreme Court going to say,
in the Obergefell case, which was the gay marriage case.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
That was the one where John Roberts came out and said,
sodomy is a tacks right.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Right, That's exactly right. That's my idrea of it.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
And we remember people reporters running out of the Supreme
Court breathless, breathing hard, just legal, gab, I just legal,
and everybody cheered and going crazy except for people who
didn't want that. And uh, I gotta admit, now, ten
years after it became the law of the land, I
can't believe we ever discussed this, or it was an.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Argument or whatever.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
It didn't seem to make much difference in anybody's life, or.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Not much, although the progressive movement has taken that ground
and moved on to new ground, which I think you
may be about to bring up.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Let me read from this.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
This is just from a tease piece the New York
Times put out, but it's got all the information in
it I need. Today is the ten year anniversary of
the day of the Supreme Court's ruling that ushered in
marriage equality in the United States.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
That was always the way they phrase it. As opposed
to gay marriage.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Andrew Sullivan, who I've always been a fan of He's
a conservative gay man. He's a very conservative, very religious,
Catholic gay man. He's a number of contradictions, which is
one of the things I like about him. He is
an early and influential advocate for gay marriage. Argues in
a guest essay today in The New York Times that
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after the gay rights movement won its most sought after
and once unimaginable goal of gay marriage being treated the
same as the same sex couple marriage, it turned ever
more radical, especially on trans issues, and in doing that,
Andrew Sullivan writes in The New York Times today, it
lost its way. Quoting now, the new ideology I believed
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was different. Like many gays and lesbians and a majority
of everybody else, I simply didn't buy it. I didn't
and don't believe that being a man or woman has
nothing to do with biology. My sexual orientation is based
on a biological distinction between men and women. I'm attracted
to the former and not to the latter, and now
I'm supposed to believe the difference didn't ever exist.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
That's a good point.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yeah, no kidding. I'm attracted to well. I can't define
either sex, so I don't know right, it's absurd. Again,
to go along with radical gender theory is to submit
to something you know in your heart is bizarre and untrue.
It's an act of submission.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
The title of his essay in The New York Times
is how the gay rights movement radicalized and lost its way.
Sullivan worries that the gay and lesbian movement, by allying
itself with what he sees as new gender ideologies, including
the medical treatments of trans kids that was the subject
of a recent Supreme Court decision, as we all know,
may have weakened the American census on gay rights. It
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absolutely has, because because they worked so hard to lump
it all together, and well.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
It's all gotten lumped together.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Yeah, gay and lesbian became lgb T, became lgbt Q,
then lgbt Q plus, then lgbt Q, I A or
two S lgbt what's the point. Yeah, Yeah, I'm there,
and and there are plenty of gay people who are like,
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all these letters got nothing to do with me, Stop
pretending like they do. And I sympathize with you, good people.
I wonder if at some point there will be a split.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
First of all, i'd like to see polling on how
many run of the mill gay guys lesbian women have
any interest in the whole trans issue at all, like
as a cause.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
And there are plenty who are staunchly against it because
they're like, somebody would have convinced me that I'm not
an effeminate man, I'm actually a woman, and they would
have fed me hormones and gotten me surgery blah blah bah.
I'm speaking for them, not me, obviously, but and they
realized that they could have been duped and rushed and
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bullied into the same terrible decision that effeminate boys and
girls afraid of puberty are being bullied into. Now.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Yeah, So to start with, I'm a gay man or
a lesbian woman, putting me together with the trans thing,
I don't even see where they're they should even be
in the same discussion why why? And then combining with
what Joe just said, in many cases, like Andrew Sullivan
writing in The New York Times, he's a very masculine
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gay man. But if you're an effeminate gay man or
a very butch lesbian woman, what Joe was just saying,
the modern thing would have been no, no, no, no, you're
not uh a masculine gay woman. You're a dude, and
you need to start, you know, need to change your name,
You need to get these surgeries, you need.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
To blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah, you're so messed up you need powerful medical interventions
or as you know, for the empteenth time, my philosophy is,
you're perfect the way you are. You do you. You're
an effeminine guy, you're a gay gay, a butch woman,
or a girl who's afraid of puberty. Don't listen to
people who say that you're so effed up they need
to carve on you. Good lord.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Well, in Sullivan's point is the whole gay lesbian argument
was this is biological.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
I was born gay. I didn't make this choice.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
You know.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
That was the thing for right for years it was you,
you're choosing this, and it's a you know, going against
the god or whatever he's saying it's biological. And now
the trans community comes along says no, there's no such
thing as a biological man or woman.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
At the same time, though, and this is why, again,
you're either an idiot or a coward or you haven't
been paying attention. If you fall for this stuff. At
the same time they're saying that, they're saying being transgender
is an immutable characteristic. It's not a choice. So your
gender is a choice, entirely a choice. It's just a
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social construct fluid.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
It can change the nds.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
But being trans is like your eye color, or you're
the fact that you have thumbs.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Come on, you have thumbs. That's pretty good. Good for you,
Andrew Sullivan, that's pretty damnation in the world.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Yeah, Bruce Springsteen dropped seven albums.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Actually, they come out next week.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
That's plenty.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
That seems like a lot. I wanted to mention that
just in case you're a Bruce fan. I am a
fan of his music. I couldn't be less of a
fan of his personality, and he's gone so far it's
almost hard for me to enjoy his music. But that
and a bunch of other stuff eventually comes.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Pentagon just released new videos of the Bunker Busters hit
Porto Kim and I can describe them to you because
you can't see them on the radio.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
But that's pretty interesting too. Stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Armstrong Hetty alarming video showing flames and smoke shooting out
of this American Airlines jet mid flight, the Airbus A
three twenty one took off from Las Vegas headed for Charlotte,
the crew reporting an engine issue just after takeoff, forcing
an immediate turnaround. American Airline says the aircraft experienced a
mechanical issue. They returned to the airport and taxi to
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the gate under its own power, where it's one hundred
and fifty three passengers deplaned normally, adding the aircraft was
taken out of service to be evaluated by our maintenance team.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
What just because flames are shooting out of the engines?
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Say, you guys are picky picky, picky picky, got two
engines right, I'm flying today. I'd hate to look out
the window and see flames shooting out the engine. Actually,
I'd be more annoyed by you got to go back
to the airport, taxi, unload, get another plane for up
to your entire day.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
That'd be more annoying.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
I mean, I don't want to die in a fiery crash,
but that doesn't happen very often in the past.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
You've called for a vote, a vote of the passengers. Yeah,
all right, you got a minor problem with the engine, folks,
Let's have a vote, or there's flames shooting out of
the engine, that would be a different vote.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Yeah, exactly. Sometimes it is.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
I would vote now, let's keep going. Everybody else, okay,
let's keep going.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
We'll be all right.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
The like you know, the toilets aren't flushing or something
that FA says you got to turn around now, flame
shooting out the engine.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
I go ahead and vote for let's go ahead and
turn around.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
I like your chances. I think you'd win that vote.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
So I got into a discussion about plastic surgery with
my thirteen year old yesterday. How I was contemplating it,
and he began mockingly mocking me endlessly. Good boy, Uh,
what were you considering?
Speaker 3 (14:50):
A chintuck? Which that's your starter.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
That's your starter plastic surgery, right, the classic facelift chintuck
thing they tighten up your your neck. I mean, that's
that's surgery number one. That's that, And I think, what
that's what leads your Dolly parton. You're Kenny Rogers, You're
Barry Manilow, your Sylvester Stallone. I can go on and
on delightful examples down the path. They probably got those done.
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They probably got those done and nobody even noticed, nobody
even commented on because they just they just look fine.
They just looked younger. But then you go another two
or three too far, and you look like a freak.
You can't open your eyes and you whistle through your ears,
and all kinds.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Of different things happen.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Then you marry Jeff Bezos anyway, So not gonna get
my baggages on the second day anymore on Mamazon.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
So when I brought this up to Henry, he said,
I would, I would make fun of you for the
rest of your life if this, ah man, I probably
shouldn't have told him. I should have told if I
was going to get it done, I'd have to. I'm
gonna be out of town on business for I don't
know how long you have to recuperate from something like that.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Oh, you make a cause.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
I legiti story up like you need it for better
breathing with your nose. That's what everybody says for the
nose job. I have a deviated septim and blah blah blah,
that's fine, do whatever you want.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Well, what would I claim for for a chin talk?
What would I claim I need?
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (16:13):
I could always say my cancer came back. It's no
big deal. But they just got operation no child, Lord,
what is wrong?
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Not for my kids?
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Several things, Katie dumb question.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Not for my kid, but for other people. I just
I need to start because I probably miss worked for
a couple of.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Days, and then I think I'd have bandages around my
head for like a month, which is hard to be bruising.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Yeah, and what bruising. It looks like you lost a
bar fight for quite a while.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Why do you know so much about this? This is
what you did on one of our vacations.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Yeah, take a look at me. How much work do
you think happened? You kidding? I ought to get my
money back.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
I feel like I've ruined it now. I can't do
it now because I've exposed it.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Yeah, well that's up to you. You do you? Barry Anelo.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
The Pentagon released videos of the bunker busting bombs to
help make the case peak. Hegsats with making to the
media today. It's pretty darn interesting conversation.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
That and some other stuff on the.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Way Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
The set was obliterated, just like I said it was,
and just like the pilots should.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Be given credit for.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
So they came home to fake news and like, oh jeez,
there was hardly any damage.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
The things are decimated.
Speaker 7 (17:32):
They want to spin it to try to make him
look bad based on a leak.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Wait a second, that doesn't Wait, that's not the clip
and the label are different because I didn't include hexets
and get a shovel, which.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
I really liked yesterday when he said that you want
to see what's going on under there, you're gonna have
to get a shovel because it's underneath a lot of rock.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
So Pete Hegseetts this morning part of.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
A demonstration by the administration to show the press how
much damage was actually done after that ridiculous leak that
came out yesterday that all the trumpe Hayton media went
nuts with. And it seems very clear at this point
was an orchestrated attempt to accomplish something, because a bunch
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of other reports and more of that same report have
now come out showing no, there was a lot of
damage done, a tremendous amount of damage.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
And what are you talking about right, Well, didn't you
mention that?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Even Joe Scarborough on MSNBC said, Hey, I think we're
getting played by this leaker here.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Yeah, let me find that that's worth mentioning. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Uh, we have to be cautious about being played by
people inside the Intel community who want to get their
message out. Scarborough said yesterday at the end of morning, Joe,
I think he had caught on to the fact or
thinking that I.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Don't think this is accurate. Uh So.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Part of what hag Zeth and the Pentagon did today
was released some footage. New York Posts version of this
jaw dropping footage released showing how thirty thousand pound bunker
buster bombs were used in historic Iran strike. And they
got a couple of different versions of videos, which I
don't know how they got the videos.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Actually, and they probably aren't gonna tell us.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
About the damage they did in different places and showing
the craters and everything like that. And it's yeah, it's
hard to imagine that it didn't do a tremendous amount
of damage.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Now, oh yeah, when you consider fourteen of those giant
sons of guns were dropped with precision guidance place, it's
got to be incredible the devastation.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Now, the pilots called the blast the brightest explosion they've
ever seen their lives. It looked like it literally looked
like daylight. Remember they were dropping these at nighttime. So
more various intelligence reports again from that same report that
the anonymous source was quoting just a portion of to
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portray it in the most negative light that a lot
of the media was thrilled with for some reason, very
excited that Iran might get a nuke.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
I guess because you hate Trump so much.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Anyway, From that same report, more information came out about
one how low certainty they have on their own report
because they don't have enough information yet, and then also
different reports from the UN, who doesn't particularly like Trump
or Israel but saying no, no, no. Is set back
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a very very long time, maybe years with this attack
and IAE and a bunch of other different organizations.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
So I don't know, I don't know what was going
on there.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Actually, Mark Alpern writes in his column today, he said,
this is all a ridiculous conversation that shouldn't be happening.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
The whole question.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Is is Iran committed to ending their attempt to get
a weapon?
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Are they going to let the IA? And in what
Trump going to do at this point?
Speaker 4 (21:00):
This is all a distraction, which I think is probably true,
it'll be forgotten.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Sure's true. It's an interesting detail. If I'm a military planner,
I'd like to know the effectiveness of the strikes, you know,
in a specific way, but no in terms of policy.
In the greater story, now it's just a data point.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Let's run through some of the stuff Pete Hegseth did
say today, all but was pretty interesting.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
You can start with that first clip, Michael.
Speaker 7 (21:21):
What President Trump accomplished in NATO yesterday was game changing
and historic, a shift in burden sharing to European responsibility
in NATO that most would have said was impossible. Thirty
two NATO countries committed to spending five percent of their
GDP on defense on actually investing in the NATO alliance.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
So I hope, with all.
Speaker 7 (21:43):
The inkspilled, all of your outlets find the time to
properly recognize this historic change in continental security that other
presidents tried to do, other presidents talked about.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
President Trump accomplished it.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Huge deal, Yeah, missing the really probably the big not
probably the biggest story of the day for a story
that was a red herring.
Speaker 7 (22:09):
He goes on with that, in trying to find wedges
and spin stories. This press corps and the press corps
miss historic moments. You miss historic moments like five percent
at NATO, which when you hear I was in the
closed door briefing, I wish there could have been cameras
in there when you heard the prime ministers and presidents
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of other countries to a man and to a woman
looking at President Trump and saying, this never could have happened.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Never would have happened.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
Seemed impossible five years ago, two years ago, eight years ago.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
But here we are because of your leadership.
Speaker 7 (22:42):
If you ask them the question, I bet they'd say
the same thing.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Even Eden Bremer, who is not a fan of Trump
in the way he has talked about NATO, said NATO
is the strongest it's ever been right now.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Yeah, yeah, which is striking given Russia's aggression and the
rest of it. What's really interesting to me watching this
developing over the last you know, the two Trump terms,
is that, and it hadn't occurred to me at the time.
I always loved Trump calling out the Euros for not
spending on defense like they were contractually bound to as
part of our sacred alliance.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Absolutely, and as I've been saying since eight years ago,
I guess whenever he was president and first start talking
about it.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
What he's saying is, hey, if you.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Don't care about NATO, then why should I care about NATO.
It's your continent and you don't even care about your
own continent. You're not spending the money you're obligated to spend,
so why should I care? But that was always portrayed
as him wanting to blow up the most important alliance
in and world history.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Blah blah blah. And I thought some of the things
he said were abusive and out of line at the time,
and I didn't appreciate them, but especially now in retrospect,
is all this has come together. He gave all of
those leaders an excuse to do what they knew they
needed to do, but that domestic politics made it really
hard to do. I mean, you think it's hard to
cut benefits in the US, what if you've had a
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quasi socialist system for decades like these European countries. So
he he was the bad cop.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
I hadn't thought of it that way, but that's true.
So them being able to present it in the liberal
media constantly presented, well, they're only doing this because they
can't count on the United States anymore, okay, And they
were obligated to by their own I mean they signed
to the NATO agreement of they're going to spend two
and a half percent, and then they didn't.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
I've got the chart. Actually, that's right.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
And just just to finish the thought as you grab
the chart, they could not count on the United States
because the United States, through Trump, said you are going
to bring defense to the party or we're leaving the party,
and the Euros thought, uh.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
Oh, Poland, Estonia and Lithuania will start there, who were
right on the border with Russia. I mean, Russia could
roll into them any day. They were spending one point
eighty six percent, one point nine percent, and point nine
percent prior to Trump getting involved, and they're now going
they're now spending four percent, three and a half and
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three percent respectively, and ramping upward. Yeah, the UH Germany
was spending one percent of their GDP. They're the richest
country in the whole alliance there outside the United States,
and they were spending one percent and now they've committed
to five.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
As absolutely unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Yeah, so who doesn't care about NATO the guy who's
bad mopping it or the countries that aren't funding their
own alliance.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
I've never understood how you don't see.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
It that way right in arrangement syndrome.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
That story was missed by the media yesterday as they
went all in on Trump said it was annihilated, and
it wasn't. No, no, no, no no, Exeth says, there are
other stories that they missed.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
But searching for.
Speaker 7 (25:55):
Scandals, you miss historic moments like recruiting at the Pentagon,
his historic levels in the Army.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
The Air Force, and the Navy.
Speaker 7 (26:03):
Yeah, maybe there'll be a little mention here or there.
But because it was under President Trump's leadership, because it
was because because Americans are responding to him as commander
in chief, the press corps doesn't want to write about him.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Yeah, that's clearly true.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
It is because it was Trump that you don't want
to talk about recruitment up attack may have been successful.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
That's so crazy.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Do you know how much easier it is to live
a life where you just report the things and then
you know, go to bed at night. I mean, I
don't care if it helps Trump or hurts Trump to
say this or that.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Right, Yeah, it is liberating. Yeah, I know it annoys
some of you some of the time, but it's what
would do? I love that? And Pete for all the
predictions of his you know, certain crack up because he was,
you know, all the things, all the aspersions thrown at him,
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from being inexperienced true to a large extent, to being
a drunk or whatever else. So far, so good. He
certainly is an articulate spokesperson for a strong, proud United
States military, which I do not think is a terrible
attribute for a Secretary of Defense. You know, this story
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is still to be written. I'm not saying he's necessarily
going to be looked back upon as a great SEC deaf,
but I'd say, so far pretty damn solid. You know
what one thing I say, without fear of contradiction, he
cares about the United States military and it's people deeply, sincerely.
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And again, that's a pretty damn good qualification for a sec.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Def Play forty six.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
This is Adam Kinsinger, who is not a Trump fan,
on the lead yesterday.
Speaker 8 (27:52):
But I think the bottom line is there's gonna be
a lot more intelligence coming in. Take the Israeli intelligence
very seriously, because the Rallies obviously.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Have quite good intelligence.
Speaker 8 (28:02):
On iron I would say, probably significantly better than us,
although we have certain capabilities, and we're just gonna have
to add all this together to figure out what happened.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Right, the Israeli assessment shows that the reality is a
lot closer to what Trump was saying than what that
leak report was saying. And I always just thought there's
good reason to believe these is Raelis because they have
no want to exaggerate how much damage was done to
the nuclear reactor.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
They don't want to point out how.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
The talk is the last thing you're going to hear
out of the Israelis.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Hell yeah, if Israel, and I'm sure they have commandos
on the ground, if those commandos on the ground said hey,
hey mister Nettan, Yahoo, man, that thing is still intact,
and they could still no, you would be telling the.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
United States you got a bomb more, it didn't go
far enough. What else can we do.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
It's not a game, it's not a political game. It's
the can we stop them from getting a nuclear weapon
that will kill us all.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
It's an odd moment we're in where such unwise people
have such a mouthpiece in an education and in media.
I mean, it's it's the battle of our time that
we fight every day in our own little way. But
it's it's a challenge, I mean, because some examples, like
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they're going crazy over that incredibly preliminary, incomplete, leaked report
that that speaks to a complete lack of judgment and
such misplaced enthusiasms that you can't trust them at all.
But here we are. What are you gonna do?
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Yeah, I was gonna point something else out.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
I don't remember if this I nailed down whether this
was true or not that the Iranians announced they were
pulling out of dealing with the I A e A
in any way, But.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Trump seems to be portraying that as it doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
I mean, we destroyed their capabilities and all that, so
all is good, and I hope that's true.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
I hope we did destroy their capabilities for now.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
But what do you think of that angle the Wall
Street Journal was talking about yesterday, is where you just
say to a Ran, right now, let AI let the
International Inspectors in today, or you're clearly not interested in
proving that you don't want to get a weapon right.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
They've gotten the opposite directions so far, pulling it tru
completely as you.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Said, Yeah, yeah, and then Trump's.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
See the iotola. Yeah, in a way, I think I
would describe it as he's like, Okay, we'll do it
the other way. It's it's like he often says, we
can do this easy way or the hard way. Yeah.
And the Iatola who declared victory, and I would like
to congratulate the Iyatola on the stunning victory over the
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fascist great say, and the little Satan Israel, Well done, sir,
well done.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
He made his first public statement since in the last
couple of weeks. He hadn't been seen for quite some time,
and he he said, I'd like to congratulate his on
our big way. Basically, Okay, it's your interpretation, I guess
more of the way.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Stay here.
Speaker 9 (31:30):
The defense concedes Combs is a.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Horrible human being.
Speaker 9 (31:35):
He's guilty of domestic violence. He's guilty of drug use,
but gee whiz, it was all consensual, so it's really
not a crime.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
So is he being charged anyway with like beating her
up from that video or is that a separate thing.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Well, that's part.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Complete, that's not the big charge.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Yeah, and certainly he's he's guilty of that. He wouldn't
go to prison for two years like he would on
all this other stuff. Yeah, Ah, wouldn't that be a
heck of a thing. He's gonna beat the rap because,
oh sure, he beats the crap out of women, drags
him down the hall, and has the weirdest sex life
anybody's ever heard of. He's all kinds of horrible, but
he didn't He's not involved in racketeering or or trafficking.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Yeah all right, yeah, coming up next hour.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
Fewer people are dying of heart attacks, like way fewer
than a couple of decades go, But these three deadly
conditions are on the rise.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Go, so stay tuned.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Oh plus the much discussed divide on the right, the
isolationists versus the interventionists. How many of those isolationists are there? Really?
Is it another example of voices much louder than they
ought to be given the actual numbers involved. We'll take
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a look at that. Oh here I found it.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
The Uranian Parliament yesterday officially passed a bill to suspend
all further cooperation.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
With the IAEA.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
That just means, yeah, we're still gonna try to get
a bomb as hard as we can, and we're not
even gonna let you look at anything we're gonna let.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Them get away with that. Anyway. I won't go back
to that story for now.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
We are rubber stamp of the leadership.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Anyway, we already mentioned Leanne Rhymes, the singer ran off
stage after her teeth fell out mid concert. Full team
coverage on that later. You hate to have your teeth
fall out. She's only fifty three. That's all young to
have your teeth fall out while you're singing.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
And again, I want to make the point that her
her natural chicklists didn't just all spontaneously fall out at once.
That would be a terrifying condition, probably not as terrifying
as the ones you're about to mention next hour, but
that would certainly be something you would like to avoid.
But no, indeed, she has false teeth from what I understand.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Why do you have false teeth and you're fifty three?
And they said genetics. I didn't watch this video.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
Lifeguard impaled by umbrella at Jersey show in Jersey short.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
In gruesome scene.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Oh, I don't want to see it.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Life The umbrellas are kind of pointing on the end.
You've seen him. The umbrella went underneath her left shoulder
and came out the back.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Oh I didn't watch the video. Yeah, that's too bad.
Oh it's a gal too. Do I react differently when
it's a gal that's a little rough.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
I was going to throw out a shout out for
the Yeasy Slides, which my son has turned me on to.
They're my new footwear at home, the Easy Slides, the
most comfortable shoes I've ever had on my feet.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Is that the Klansman's brand.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Does it cause impromptu Nazi salutes? You walk around like
this all day long? Yeah? I'm just saying.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
I mean he's not involved with it now. Easy still
Adidas still makes them the original, his version of Easy
you can get which I got, which are a little pricey,
but you can get the other ones are the same,
very very comfortable.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
So if you want some decent, comfy Nazi footwear, I
could recommend him.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Thanks.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
I don't think that, you know, I don't think that's true. Uh,
if you miss a segment? Now do we do four
hours every single days? Are you so far we read
the contract?
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Is that right?
Speaker 4 (35:20):
If you miss a segment or an hour, get the
podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and
Jet Tidy.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I know he.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Armstrong and Yetty I got to catch up on a
couple of things.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
I've got a Mormon insider, somebody who was living in
the Mormon Church, married for decades, who has hit us
with a couple of interesting things on a story we
did last hour. I don't know if you've been following
this national story of these kids that got kidnapped. It
looks like by some of the fundamentalist Mormons. Anyway, we'll
get to that later. It's the anniversary of gay marriage
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becoming legal. Got some stuff on that, but big story,
especially since the media is out of New York. The
fact that they I mean, it's a big story whether
you live in New York or not. But this socialist dude,
it would seem Israel hating Jew hating socialist dude is
going to be the mayor of New York almost certainly
come November. And all the late night comedians did a
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joke about him last night.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yep, we're going to do a late night joke off.
Here's the format, each takes their crack at a joke,
I jokeet, he will rate them, give them a letter grade,
and the bottom grade getter will be banned from comedy
for life.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
It's amazing in US, It's amazing you have that power.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Yesterday was New York City's democratic mayoral primary, and former
Governor Andrew Cuomo conceded to status smilymen Zo Ron Mamdani
on the bright side. On the bright side for Cuomo,
at least he doesn't have.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
To move to New York City.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
During his concession speech, Cuomo said that Mam Donnie put
together a great campaign and added quote he touched young
people and inspired them and got them to come out
and vote. Cuomo's mistake was waiting until after he was
elected to touch young people.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Yeah, everyone is talking about this last night.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
In a major upset, Zoran Mamdani beat Andrew Cuomo to
win New York's democratic mayoral primate.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Mam Donnie is thirty.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Three years old.
Speaker 6 (02:21):
After he won, he was like, my seven roommates are
never going to believe this. Dude, take a look at
this map. Mom Donnie won decisively in Manhattan, Brooklyn in
Queens Or Andrew Cuomo won Staten Island, the Bronx and
the secret sixth borough of Groper's Island, And.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
It's not, and no it's not. It's not what it
sounds like.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
It was named after Emmanuel Groper, a Dutch colonial farmer
who enjoyed touching his employees.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
I knew that it was coming, But Grover's Island, all right, Well,
certainly the winner is clear there, Colbert with a solid
B plus maybe an A minus Fallon and Meyers tying
with B minuses.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
According to the obscure rules of the Late Night Joke Off,
they are both on double secret comedy probation and must
be funnier in the future.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
I'm not trying to downplay the fact that this guy's
socialist ideas and maybe anti Semitism was popular and got
him votes, but I think there is a lot more there.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
He ran against a horrible candidate, a horrible.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Candidate that, to everybody I've read, ran an almost non
existence campaign. He thought he could just walk through the
primary and win it without any effort whatsoever, and he
got beat. So he's a horrible candidate who ran a
bad campaign that played part of it.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Also, Trump learned the knows this.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
You grab onto a couple of issues everybody's crazy angry
about that nobody seems to be addressing and you make
that your focal point. Trump, immigration and inflation over and
over and over and over and over again, and it
seemed like nobody cared and that was the number one
and two issue.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
And this guy did the same thing. Prices are too high,
and he just kept talking about he can't afford to
live here, over and over and over and over over again.
That's gonna get a.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Lot of people to vote for you. And he's charismatic,
he's articulate, he's, you know, a hard working campaigner. The
rest of it. He's also a nightmare for people like
me who've been warning against the coalition of Islamism and progressivism.
And it's played out many times in history. I brought
you a list a couple of weeks ago where they
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work together to overthrow the powers that be, and then
they fight each other for whether it's going to become
an Islamist republic like Iran did, or a Marxist republic
like you know, Soviet Union did, although Islamism wasn't a
big part of that. But yeah, but they joined together
through history over and over again, this guy's both.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
He won, even though he refused to denounce the phrase
globalized into fada. It'll be interesting to see if he
moderates on that headed into the general election or not.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
He probably doesn't need to to win, but that's a
heck of a thing to run on.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Probably not because he got an enormous turnout of who white,
college educated young voters. That wasn't it, But that was
the strength of his campaign.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
So today is an anniversary. I remember very well. We
were gladys. We were doing this job. Of course we
were doing this job. We've been doing the same thing
every day our entire lives, Joe and I together, which
is fine. I love my job. It's just amazing that
you can.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Go opportunity for advancements. Somebody should have told me.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
It's amazing.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
It can go through like anything that's happened in the
last thirty some years.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
And Joe and I were sitting here talking about it.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
But it was ten years ago today that everybody was
anxiously awaiting a Supreme Court decision, as you often are
in June. There's not one this year, but often there's
a really big one. What's the Supreme Court going to say,
in the Obergefell case, which was the gay marriage case.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
That was the one where John Roberts came out and said,
sodomy is a tacks right.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Right, That's exactly right. That's my idrea of it.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
And we remember people reporters running out of the Supreme
Court breathless, breathing hard, just legal, gab, I just legal,
and everybody cheered and going crazy except for people who
didn't want that. And uh, I gotta admit, now, ten
years after it became the law of the land, I
can't believe we ever discussed this, or it was an.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Argument or whatever.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
It didn't seem to make much difference in anybody's life, or.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Not much, although the progressive movement has taken that ground
and moved on to new ground, which I think you
may be about to bring up.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Let me read from this.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
This is just from a tease piece the New York
Times put out, but it's got all the information in
it I need. Today is the ten year anniversary of
the day of the Supreme Court's ruling that ushered in
marriage equality in the United States.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
That was always the way they phrase it. As opposed
to gay marriage.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Andrew Sullivan, who I've always been a fan of He's
a conservative gay man. He's a very conservative, very religious,
Catholic gay man. He's a number of contradictions, which is
one of the things I like about him. He is
an early and influential advocate for gay marriage. Argues in
a guest essay today in The New York Times that
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after the gay rights movement won its most sought after
and once unimaginable goal of gay marriage being treated the
same as the same sex couple marriage, it turned ever
more radical, especially on trans issues, and in doing that,
Andrew Sullivan writes in The New York Times today, it
lost its way. Quoting now, the new ideology I believed
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was different. Like many gays and lesbians and a majority
of everybody else, I simply didn't buy it. I didn't
and don't believe that being a man or woman has
nothing to do with biology. My sexual orientation is based
on a biological distinction between men and women. I'm attracted
to the former and not to the latter, and now
I'm supposed to believe the difference didn't ever exist.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
That's a good point.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yeah, no kidding. I'm attracted to well. I can't define
either sex, so I don't know right, it's absurd. Again,
to go along with radical gender theory is to submit
to something you know in your heart is bizarre and untrue.
It's an act of submission.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
The title of his essay in The New York Times
is how the gay rights movement radicalized and lost its way.
Sullivan worries that the gay and lesbian movement, by allying
itself with what he sees as new gender ideologies, including
the medical treatments of trans kids that was the subject
of a recent Supreme Court decision, as we all know,
may have weakened the American census on gay rights. It
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absolutely has, because because they worked so hard to lump
it all together, and well.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
It's all gotten lumped together.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Yeah, gay and lesbian became lgb T, became lgbt Q,
then lgbt Q plus, then lgbt Q, I A or
two S lgbt what's the point. Yeah, Yeah, I'm there,
and and there are plenty of gay people who are like,
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all these letters got nothing to do with me, Stop
pretending like they do. And I sympathize with you, good people.
I wonder if at some point there will be a split.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
First of all, i'd like to see polling on how
many run of the mill gay guys lesbian women have
any interest in the whole trans issue at all, like
as a cause.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
And there are plenty who are staunchly against it because
they're like, somebody would have convinced me that I'm not
an effeminate man, I'm actually a woman, and they would
have fed me hormones and gotten me surgery blah blah bah.
I'm speaking for them, not me, obviously, but and they
realized that they could have been duped and rushed and
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bullied into the same terrible decision that effeminate boys and
girls afraid of puberty are being bullied into. Now.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Yeah, So to start with, I'm a gay man or
a lesbian woman, putting me together with the trans thing,
I don't even see where they're they should even be
in the same discussion why why? And then combining with
what Joe just said, in many cases, like Andrew Sullivan
writing in The New York Times, he's a very masculine
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gay man. But if you're an effeminate gay man or
a very butch lesbian woman, what Joe was just saying,
the modern thing would have been no, no, no, no, you're
not uh a masculine gay woman. You're a dude, and
you need to start, you know, need to change your name,
You need to get these surgeries, you need.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
To blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah, you're so messed up you need powerful medical interventions
or as you know, for the empteenth time, my philosophy is,
you're perfect the way you are. You do you. You're
an effeminine guy, you're a gay gay, a butch woman,
or a girl who's afraid of puberty. Don't listen to
people who say that you're so effed up they need
to carve on you. Good lord.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Well, in Sullivan's point is the whole gay lesbian argument
was this is biological.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
I was born gay. I didn't make this choice.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
You know.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
That was the thing for right for years it was you,
you're choosing this, and it's a you know, going against
the god or whatever he's saying it's biological. And now
the trans community comes along says no, there's no such
thing as a biological man or woman.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
At the same time, though, and this is why, again,
you're either an idiot or a coward or you haven't
been paying attention. If you fall for this stuff. At
the same time they're saying that, they're saying being transgender
is an immutable characteristic. It's not a choice. So your
gender is a choice, entirely a choice. It's just a
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social construct fluid.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
It can change the nds.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
But being trans is like your eye color, or you're
the fact that you have thumbs.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Come on, you have thumbs. That's pretty good. Good for you,
Andrew Sullivan, that's pretty damnation in the world.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Yeah, Bruce Springsteen dropped seven albums.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Actually, they come out next week.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
That's plenty.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
That seems like a lot. I wanted to mention that
just in case you're a Bruce fan. I am a
fan of his music. I couldn't be less of a
fan of his personality, and he's gone so far it's
almost hard for me to enjoy his music. But that
and a bunch of other stuff eventually comes.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Pentagon just released new videos of the Bunker Busters hit
Porto Kim and I can describe them to you because
you can't see them on the radio.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
But that's pretty interesting too. Stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Armstrong Hetty alarming video showing flames and smoke shooting out
of this American Airlines jet mid flight, the Airbus A
three twenty one took off from Las Vegas headed for Charlotte,
the crew reporting an engine issue just after takeoff, forcing
an immediate turnaround. American Airline says the aircraft experienced a
mechanical issue. They returned to the airport and taxi to
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the gate under its own power, where it's one hundred
and fifty three passengers deplaned normally, adding the aircraft was
taken out of service to be evaluated by our maintenance team.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
What just because flames are shooting out of the engines?
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Say, you guys are picky picky, picky picky, got two
engines right, I'm flying today. I'd hate to look out
the window and see flames shooting out the engine. Actually,
I'd be more annoyed by you got to go back
to the airport, taxi, unload, get another plane for up
to your entire day.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
That'd be more annoying.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
I mean, I don't want to die in a fiery crash,
but that doesn't happen very often in the past.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
You've called for a vote, a vote of the passengers. Yeah,
all right, you got a minor problem with the engine, folks,
Let's have a vote, or there's flames shooting out of
the engine, that would be a different vote.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Yeah, exactly. Sometimes it is.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
I would vote now, let's keep going. Everybody else, okay,
let's keep going.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
We'll be all right.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
The like you know, the toilets aren't flushing or something
that FA says you got to turn around now, flame
shooting out the engine.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
I go ahead and vote for let's go ahead and
turn around.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
I like your chances. I think you'd win that vote.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
So I got into a discussion about plastic surgery with
my thirteen year old yesterday. How I was contemplating it,
and he began mockingly mocking me endlessly. Good boy, Uh,
what were you considering?
Speaker 3 (14:50):
A chintuck? Which that's your starter.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
That's your starter plastic surgery, right, the classic facelift chintuck
thing they tighten up your your neck. I mean, that's
that's surgery number one. That's that, And I think, what
that's what leads your Dolly parton. You're Kenny Rogers, You're
Barry Manilow, your Sylvester Stallone. I can go on and
on delightful examples down the path. They probably got those done.
(15:16):
They probably got those done and nobody even noticed, nobody
even commented on because they just they just look fine.
They just looked younger. But then you go another two
or three too far, and you look like a freak.
You can't open your eyes and you whistle through your ears,
and all kinds.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Of different things happen.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Then you marry Jeff Bezos anyway, So not gonna get
my baggages on the second day anymore on Mamazon.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
So when I brought this up to Henry, he said,
I would, I would make fun of you for the
rest of your life if this, ah man, I probably
shouldn't have told him. I should have told if I
was going to get it done, I'd have to. I'm
gonna be out of town on business for I don't
know how long you have to recuperate from something like that.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Oh, you make a cause.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
I legiti story up like you need it for better
breathing with your nose. That's what everybody says for the
nose job. I have a deviated septim and blah blah blah,
that's fine, do whatever you want.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Well, what would I claim for for a chin talk?
What would I claim I need?
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (16:13):
I could always say my cancer came back. It's no
big deal. But they just got operation no child, Lord,
what is wrong?
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Not for my kids?
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Several things, Katie dumb question.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Not for my kid, but for other people. I just
I need to start because I probably miss worked for
a couple of.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Days, and then I think I'd have bandages around my
head for like a month, which is hard to be bruising.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Yeah, and what bruising. It looks like you lost a
bar fight for quite a while.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Why do you know so much about this? This is
what you did on one of our vacations.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Yeah, take a look at me. How much work do
you think happened? You kidding? I ought to get my
money back.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
I feel like I've ruined it now. I can't do
it now because I've exposed it.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Yeah, well that's up to you. You do you? Barry Anelo.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
The Pentagon released videos of the bunker busting bombs to
help make the case peak. Hegsats with making to the
media today. It's pretty darn interesting conversation.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
That and some other stuff on the.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Way Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
The set was obliterated, just like I said it was,
and just like the pilots should.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Be given credit for.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
So they came home to fake news and like, oh jeez,
there was hardly any damage.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
The things are decimated.
Speaker 7 (17:32):
They want to spin it to try to make him
look bad based on a leak.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Wait a second, that doesn't Wait, that's not the clip
and the label are different because I didn't include hexets
and get a shovel, which.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
I really liked yesterday when he said that you want
to see what's going on under there, you're gonna have
to get a shovel because it's underneath a lot of rock.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
So Pete Hegseetts this morning part of.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
A demonstration by the administration to show the press how
much damage was actually done after that ridiculous leak that
came out yesterday that all the trumpe Hayton media went
nuts with. And it seems very clear at this point
was an orchestrated attempt to accomplish something, because a bunch
(18:20):
of other reports and more of that same report have
now come out showing no, there was a lot of
damage done, a tremendous amount of damage.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
And what are you talking about right, Well, didn't you
mention that?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Even Joe Scarborough on MSNBC said, Hey, I think we're
getting played by this leaker here.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Yeah, let me find that that's worth mentioning. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Uh, we have to be cautious about being played by
people inside the Intel community who want to get their
message out. Scarborough said yesterday at the end of morning, Joe,
I think he had caught on to the fact or
thinking that I.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Don't think this is accurate. Uh So.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Part of what hag Zeth and the Pentagon did today
was released some footage. New York Posts version of this
jaw dropping footage released showing how thirty thousand pound bunker
buster bombs were used in historic Iran strike. And they
got a couple of different versions of videos, which I
don't know how they got the videos.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Actually, and they probably aren't gonna tell us.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
About the damage they did in different places and showing
the craters and everything like that. And it's yeah, it's
hard to imagine that it didn't do a tremendous amount
of damage.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Now, oh yeah, when you consider fourteen of those giant
sons of guns were dropped with precision guidance place, it's
got to be incredible the devastation.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Now, the pilots called the blast the brightest explosion they've
ever seen their lives. It looked like it literally looked
like daylight. Remember they were dropping these at nighttime. So
more various intelligence reports again from that same report that
the anonymous source was quoting just a portion of to
(20:02):
portray it in the most negative light that a lot
of the media was thrilled with for some reason, very
excited that Iran might get a nuke.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
I guess because you hate Trump so much.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Anyway, From that same report, more information came out about
one how low certainty they have on their own report
because they don't have enough information yet, and then also
different reports from the UN, who doesn't particularly like Trump
or Israel but saying no, no, no. Is set back
(20:32):
a very very long time, maybe years with this attack
and IAE and a bunch of other different organizations.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
So I don't know, I don't know what was going
on there.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Actually, Mark Alpern writes in his column today, he said,
this is all a ridiculous conversation that shouldn't be happening.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
The whole question.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Is is Iran committed to ending their attempt to get
a weapon?
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Are they going to let the IA? And in what
Trump going to do at this point?
Speaker 4 (21:00):
This is all a distraction, which I think is probably true,
it'll be forgotten.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Sure's true. It's an interesting detail. If I'm a military planner,
I'd like to know the effectiveness of the strikes, you know,
in a specific way, but no in terms of policy.
In the greater story, now it's just a data point.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Let's run through some of the stuff Pete Hegseth did
say today, all but was pretty interesting.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
You can start with that first clip, Michael.
Speaker 7 (21:21):
What President Trump accomplished in NATO yesterday was game changing
and historic, a shift in burden sharing to European responsibility
in NATO that most would have said was impossible. Thirty
two NATO countries committed to spending five percent of their
GDP on defense on actually investing in the NATO alliance.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
So I hope, with all.
Speaker 7 (21:43):
The inkspilled, all of your outlets find the time to
properly recognize this historic change in continental security that other
presidents tried to do, other presidents talked about.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
President Trump accomplished it.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Huge deal, Yeah, missing the really probably the big not
probably the biggest story of the day for a story
that was a red herring.
Speaker 7 (22:09):
He goes on with that, in trying to find wedges
and spin stories. This press corps and the press corps
miss historic moments. You miss historic moments like five percent
at NATO, which when you hear I was in the
closed door briefing, I wish there could have been cameras
in there when you heard the prime ministers and presidents
(22:29):
of other countries to a man and to a woman
looking at President Trump and saying, this never could have happened.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Never would have happened.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
Seemed impossible five years ago, two years ago, eight years ago.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
But here we are because of your leadership.
Speaker 7 (22:42):
If you ask them the question, I bet they'd say
the same thing.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Even Eden Bremer, who is not a fan of Trump
in the way he has talked about NATO, said NATO
is the strongest it's ever been right now.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Yeah, yeah, which is striking given Russia's aggression and the
rest of it. What's really interesting to me watching this
developing over the last you know, the two Trump terms,
is that, and it hadn't occurred to me at the time.
I always loved Trump calling out the Euros for not
spending on defense like they were contractually bound to as
part of our sacred alliance.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Absolutely, and as I've been saying since eight years ago,
I guess whenever he was president and first start talking
about it.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
What he's saying is, hey, if you.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Don't care about NATO, then why should I care about NATO.
It's your continent and you don't even care about your
own continent. You're not spending the money you're obligated to spend,
so why should I care? But that was always portrayed
as him wanting to blow up the most important alliance
in and world history.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Blah blah blah. And I thought some of the things
he said were abusive and out of line at the time,
and I didn't appreciate them, but especially now in retrospect,
is all this has come together. He gave all of
those leaders an excuse to do what they knew they
needed to do, but that domestic politics made it really
hard to do. I mean, you think it's hard to
cut benefits in the US, what if you've had a
(24:00):
quasi socialist system for decades like these European countries. So
he he was the bad cop.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
I hadn't thought of it that way, but that's true.
So them being able to present it in the liberal
media constantly presented, well, they're only doing this because they
can't count on the United States anymore, okay, And they
were obligated to by their own I mean they signed
to the NATO agreement of they're going to spend two
and a half percent, and then they didn't.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
I've got the chart. Actually, that's right.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
And just just to finish the thought as you grab
the chart, they could not count on the United States
because the United States, through Trump, said you are going
to bring defense to the party or we're leaving the party,
and the Euros thought, uh.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
Oh, Poland, Estonia and Lithuania will start there, who were
right on the border with Russia. I mean, Russia could
roll into them any day. They were spending one point
eighty six percent, one point nine percent, and point nine
percent prior to Trump getting involved, and they're now going
they're now spending four percent, three and a half and
(25:05):
three percent respectively, and ramping upward. Yeah, the UH Germany
was spending one percent of their GDP. They're the richest
country in the whole alliance there outside the United States,
and they were spending one percent and now they've committed
to five.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
As absolutely unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Yeah, so who doesn't care about NATO the guy who's
bad mopping it or the countries that aren't funding their
own alliance.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
I've never understood how you don't see.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
It that way right in arrangement syndrome.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
That story was missed by the media yesterday as they
went all in on Trump said it was annihilated, and
it wasn't. No, no, no, no no, Exeth says, there are
other stories that they missed.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
But searching for.
Speaker 7 (25:55):
Scandals, you miss historic moments like recruiting at the Pentagon,
his historic levels in the Army.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
The Air Force, and the Navy.
Speaker 7 (26:03):
Yeah, maybe there'll be a little mention here or there.
But because it was under President Trump's leadership, because it
was because because Americans are responding to him as commander
in chief, the press corps doesn't want to write about him.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Yeah, that's clearly true.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
It is because it was Trump that you don't want
to talk about recruitment up attack may have been successful.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
That's so crazy.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Do you know how much easier it is to live
a life where you just report the things and then
you know, go to bed at night. I mean, I
don't care if it helps Trump or hurts Trump to
say this or that.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Right, Yeah, it is liberating. Yeah, I know it annoys
some of you some of the time, but it's what
would do? I love that? And Pete for all the
predictions of his you know, certain crack up because he was,
you know, all the things, all the aspersions thrown at him,
(26:57):
from being inexperienced true to a large extent, to being
a drunk or whatever else. So far, so good. He
certainly is an articulate spokesperson for a strong, proud United
States military, which I do not think is a terrible
attribute for a Secretary of Defense. You know, this story
(27:18):
is still to be written. I'm not saying he's necessarily
going to be looked back upon as a great SEC deaf,
but I'd say, so far pretty damn solid. You know
what one thing I say, without fear of contradiction, he
cares about the United States military and it's people deeply, sincerely.
(27:38):
And again, that's a pretty damn good qualification for a sec.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Def Play forty six.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
This is Adam Kinsinger, who is not a Trump fan,
on the lead yesterday.
Speaker 8 (27:52):
But I think the bottom line is there's gonna be
a lot more intelligence coming in. Take the Israeli intelligence
very seriously, because the Rallies obviously.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Have quite good intelligence.
Speaker 8 (28:02):
On iron I would say, probably significantly better than us,
although we have certain capabilities, and we're just gonna have
to add all this together to figure out what happened.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Right, the Israeli assessment shows that the reality is a
lot closer to what Trump was saying than what that
leak report was saying. And I always just thought there's
good reason to believe these is Raelis because they have
no want to exaggerate how much damage was done to
the nuclear reactor.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
They don't want to point out how.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
The talk is the last thing you're going to hear
out of the Israelis.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Hell yeah, if Israel, and I'm sure they have commandos
on the ground, if those commandos on the ground said hey,
hey mister Nettan, Yahoo, man, that thing is still intact,
and they could still no, you would be telling the.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
United States you got a bomb more, it didn't go
far enough. What else can we do.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
It's not a game, it's not a political game. It's
the can we stop them from getting a nuclear weapon
that will kill us all.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
It's an odd moment we're in where such unwise people
have such a mouthpiece in an education and in media.
I mean, it's it's the battle of our time that
we fight every day in our own little way. But
it's it's a challenge, I mean, because some examples, like
(29:20):
they're going crazy over that incredibly preliminary, incomplete, leaked report
that that speaks to a complete lack of judgment and
such misplaced enthusiasms that you can't trust them at all.
But here we are. What are you gonna do?
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Yeah, I was gonna point something else out.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
I don't remember if this I nailed down whether this
was true or not that the Iranians announced they were
pulling out of dealing with the I A e A
in any way, But.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Trump seems to be portraying that as it doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
I mean, we destroyed their capabilities and all that, so
all is good, and I hope that's true.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
I hope we did destroy their capabilities for now.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
But what do you think of that angle the Wall
Street Journal was talking about yesterday, is where you just
say to a Ran, right now, let AI let the
International Inspectors in today, or you're clearly not interested in
proving that you don't want to get a weapon right.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
They've gotten the opposite directions so far, pulling it tru
completely as you.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Said, Yeah, yeah, and then Trump's.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
See the iotola. Yeah, in a way, I think I
would describe it as he's like, Okay, we'll do it
the other way. It's it's like he often says, we
can do this easy way or the hard way. Yeah.
And the Iatola who declared victory, and I would like
to congratulate the Iyatola on the stunning victory over the
(30:58):
fascist great say, and the little Satan Israel, Well done, sir,
well done.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
He made his first public statement since in the last
couple of weeks. He hadn't been seen for quite some time,
and he he said, I'd like to congratulate his on
our big way. Basically, Okay, it's your interpretation, I guess
more of the way.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Stay here.
Speaker 9 (31:30):
The defense concedes Combs is a.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Horrible human being.
Speaker 9 (31:35):
He's guilty of domestic violence. He's guilty of drug use,
but gee whiz, it was all consensual, so it's really
not a crime.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
So is he being charged anyway with like beating her
up from that video or is that a separate thing.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Well, that's part.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Complete, that's not the big charge.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Yeah, and certainly he's he's guilty of that. He wouldn't
go to prison for two years like he would on
all this other stuff. Yeah, Ah, wouldn't that be a
heck of a thing. He's gonna beat the rap because,
oh sure, he beats the crap out of women, drags
him down the hall, and has the weirdest sex life
anybody's ever heard of. He's all kinds of horrible, but
he didn't He's not involved in racketeering or or trafficking.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Yeah all right, yeah, coming up next hour.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
Fewer people are dying of heart attacks, like way fewer
than a couple of decades go, But these three deadly
conditions are on the rise.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Go, so stay tuned.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Oh plus the much discussed divide on the right, the
isolationists versus the interventionists. How many of those isolationists are there? Really?
Is it another example of voices much louder than they
ought to be given the actual numbers involved. We'll take
(32:58):
a look at that. Oh here I found it.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
The Uranian Parliament yesterday officially passed a bill to suspend
all further cooperation.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
With the IAEA.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
That just means, yeah, we're still gonna try to get
a bomb as hard as we can, and we're not
even gonna let you look at anything we're gonna let.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Them get away with that. Anyway. I won't go back
to that story for now.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
We are rubber stamp of the leadership.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Anyway, we already mentioned Leanne Rhymes, the singer ran off
stage after her teeth fell out mid concert. Full team
coverage on that later. You hate to have your teeth
fall out. She's only fifty three. That's all young to
have your teeth fall out while you're singing.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
And again, I want to make the point that her
her natural chicklists didn't just all spontaneously fall out at once.
That would be a terrifying condition, probably not as terrifying
as the ones you're about to mention next hour, but
that would certainly be something you would like to avoid.
But no, indeed, she has false teeth from what I understand.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Why do you have false teeth and you're fifty three?
And they said genetics. I didn't watch this video.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
Lifeguard impaled by umbrella at Jersey show in Jersey short.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
In gruesome scene.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Oh, I don't want to see it.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Life The umbrellas are kind of pointing on the end.
You've seen him. The umbrella went underneath her left shoulder
and came out the back.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Oh I didn't watch the video. Yeah, that's too bad.
Oh it's a gal too. Do I react differently when
it's a gal that's a little rough.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
I was going to throw out a shout out for
the Yeasy Slides, which my son has turned me on to.
They're my new footwear at home, the Easy Slides, the
most comfortable shoes I've ever had on my feet.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Is that the Klansman's brand.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Does it cause impromptu Nazi salutes? You walk around like
this all day long? Yeah? I'm just saying.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
I mean he's not involved with it now. Easy still
Adidas still makes them the original, his version of Easy
you can get which I got, which are a little pricey,
but you can get the other ones are the same,
very very comfortable.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
So if you want some decent, comfy Nazi footwear, I
could recommend him.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Thanks.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
I don't think that, you know, I don't think that's true. Uh,
if you miss a segment? Now do we do four
hours every single days? Are you so far we read
the contract?
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Is that right?
Speaker 4 (35:20):
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